SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ A Korean-American missionary held captive in North Korea for six weeks after illegally crossing into the country last Christmas says his interrogators beat and tortured him. Robert Park crossed a frozen river into North Korea from China, shouting that he brought God’s love and carrying a letter urging the totalitarian [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Christian singer Michael W. Smith says he wrote the song “Leave” out of concern for victims of bullying and abuse. In a survey of 43,000 U.S. high school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, half said they had bullied someone in the past year, and nearly half said they were [...]
Beth Moore (and musician, Travis Cottrell) will be at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Arena in Rapid City on Friday/Saturday November 19/20 at the Living Proof Live conference…
JOS, Nigeria (AP) _ A Nigerian Army spokesman says six people have been killed in an apparent reprisal attack in central Nigeria, a region violently divided between Christians and Muslims. Lt. Col. Kingsley Umoh says the attackers hit the Christian village of Chewenkur Tuesday morning. He says the attackers, suspected to be Fulani Muslim herders, [...]
DETROIT (AP) _ A woman who put a card on her church bulletin board seeking a Christian roommate has been accused of violating fair housing laws against religious discrimination. The Michigan Department of Civil Rights is investigating the complaint filed by someone who saw the handwritten ad posted by the 31-year-old woman in Grand Rapids. [...]
LINEVILLE, Alabama (AP) _ In a rural nook of eastern Alabama, missionaries and community leaders from foreign lands are learning to save lives in the world’s poorest countries with mud, sand and leaves. The training is offered by Servants in Faith and Technology, a Christian organization with ties to the United Methodist Church. On a [...]
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) _ The Palestinian government is planning an ambitious restoration project for the ancient church that marks the traditional spot where Jesus was born. Ziad Bandak, an official working on the restoration, says renovation of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity is expected to take several years and cost millions of dollars. Bandak [...]
Fort Smith, Ark. (AP) _ A math instructor who spent 17 years translating the Old and New Testaments into Vietnamese is working to get it distributed in Vietnam. Tam Pham teaches math at Union Christian Academy in Fort Smith, Ark. His translation, being distributed by the World Bible Translation Center, has proven popular with Vietnamese-language [...]
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA (FR) – More than 1000 motorcyclists from North Carolina, South Carolina and as far away as Florida will arrive at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina this Saturday bringing shoe box gifts for children around the world. The “Bikers With Boxes” will donate their giftboxes to Operation Christmas Child. The [...]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP)_ Organizers of a major gathering of evangelists in Cape Town, South Africa, say their internet communication has been hacked. Officials of the Lausanne Congress for Global Evangelization say their sophisticated computer network was compromised by “malicious attacks by millions of external hits coming from several locations.” And its believed a [...]
